Vatican gives update about Pope Francis’ state as they march the Holy Year celebrations without it

On Saturday, the Vatican continued with its Holy Year celebrations without Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized while fighting pneumonia and complex respiratory infections.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni has given the shortest update so far on Saturday: “The Pope has been resting well.”

Doctors said on Friday 88-year-old Francis “is not out of danger” And that the main threat to it will face the beginning of the sepsis, a serious blood infection that can occur as a complication of pneumonia.

“Sepsa, with his respiratory problems and his years, would be really hard to go out,” said Dr. Sergio Alfieri, head of medicine and surgery at the Gemelli Hospital at a press conference on Friday. “The English say” wood knocking, “we say” touches iron. “Everyone touches what they want,” he said as he eavesdropped on the microphone. “But this is a real risk in these cases: that these germs go into the bloodstream.”

There was no evidence of any sepsis since Friday, and the Pope responded to the various medicines he takes.

“It’s not out of danger,” said his personal doctor, Dr. Luigi Carboni. “Like all fragile patients, I say they are always on the golden level: in other words, it takes very little to become unbalanced.”

Francis, who has a chronic lung disease, was admitted to Gemelli Hospital on February 14th after a The week was getting worse with bronchitis.

Doctors first diagnosed Complex infection of the respiratory tract of viral, bacteria and fungi and then the beginning of pneumonia in both lungs. They prescribed a “absolute rest” and a combination of cortisone and antibiotics, along with additional oxygen when he needed.

Carbone, who, together with Francis’s personal medical sister Massimiliano Strappetti organized his care of him in the Vatican, admitted that he insisted on staying in the Vatican to work, even after being ill, “because of the institutional and private obligations.” A cardiologist and an infectious specialist took care of him, except for his personal medical team before he was hospitalized.

“He knows it’s in danger,” Alfieri added. “And he told us to transfer that.”

Meanwhile, deacons gathered in the Vatican for their special jubilee weekend. Francis became ill at the beginning of the Vatican Holy Year, a celebration of Catholicism in the former quarter. This weekend Francis was supposed to celebrate deacons, a service in a church that preceded the population of the priesthood.

In his place, the organizer of the Holy Year will celebrate Sunday Mass, Vatican said. And the second weekend in a row, Francis was expected to skip his traditional blessing on Sunday noon, which could have delivered from Gemelli if he was on it.

“Look, even though he’s not (physically) here, we know he’s here,” said Luis Arnaldo Lopez Quirindongo, a deacon from Ponce, a Puerto Rico who was in the Vatican on Saturday at the Jubilee celebration. “Recover, but he is in our hearts and follows us because our prayers and his together.”

While his stay in the hospital is withdrawing, some of Francis’s cardinals began to answer an apparent question: can Francis resign if he becomes irreversibly ill and incapable of continuing. Francis said he would consider it, after Papa Benedict XVI “opened the door” to the pope who retreated but did not show the signs to step down and in recently claimed that the Pope’s job was for a living